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04877aam a2200409 i 4500 001 EEF6ECB8C7F211EAB1F2873797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200717010022 008 191017s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019036507 020 $a 0190087641 020 $a 9780190087647 035 $a (OCoLC)1124281598 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a B808.67 $b .S83 2020 082 00 $a 170 $2 23 100 1 $a Swaine, Lucas, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a Ethical autonomy : $b the rise of self-rule / $c Lucas Swaine. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xi, 225 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Autonomy is a towering concept in human affairs. Its "evocative force" pulses through the discourse of classical antiquity, rising in present times and proliferating across the globe. Vital to social-scientific and philosophical understanding, autonomy stands prominently in the pantheon of democratic values, celebrated together with the basic liberties, justice, equality, toleration, and the rule of law. Autonomy is a mainstay of individual freedom and the lifeblood of democratic conceptions of citizenship. Many believe that personal autonomy promotes individuality and authenticity, empowering citizens and spurring positive social change. Various scholars occupy themselves with the question of how to facilitate or to increase personal autonomy in democratic polities. Some ask what liberal government can do to advance personal autonomy, through schooling and other educational measures, in order to enhance people's pursuits or to energize political participation. Others go so far as to propose that personal autonomy is a basic human right, one generating moral and legal entitlements around the world. Numerous advocates have assumed that personal autonomy fits snugly with other important moral and political values. Some presuppose a natural compatibility between personal autonomy and superior ethical agency, reckoning that the more autonomous someone is, the better morally that person will be. Others intimate, or declare outright, that it is decidedly deficient not to be autonomous at the personal level. These views are fabricated from the positive qualities of autonomy, with proponents assuming, even defining, autonomous people as basically moral actors.The rosy notions and happy assumptions about autonomy are dangerous mistakes. Not only do many personally autonomous individuals take form as very bad actors: numerous of them are terrible miscreants who commit despicable, even monstrous acts. Some autonomous individuals torture, rape, and murder people they encounter. Others are deeply wicked and depraved in other ways. Personally autonomous individuals come in many dreadful varieties, from degenerate malefactors to perpetrators of horrific evil. The jumble includes those who unburden themselves of emotional and volitional constraints, preparing themselves for shocking acts. And the mix features individuals who labor thirstily to generate options to do evil, or who mull over depraved choices that appear within their perimeters. These are people whose autonomy produces a number of difficult philosophical and practical conundrums for moral and political theory, for liberalism, and for citizenship in democratic political orders. Many personally autonomous individuals are upstanding citizens and fine people, but there are legion who are not. Theorists of personal autonomy have done well to consider ways in which autonomous acts can be immoral, but virtually none has faced up to the reality that the category of personally autonomous agents includes highly unethical individuals, people who create a myriad of thoroughgoing, deeply challenging problems that destabilize personal autonomy's fit with crucial moral and political values.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Autonomy (Philosophy) 650 0 $a Citizenship $x Moral and ethical aspects. 650 0 $a Individualism $x Moral and ethical aspects. 650 0 $a Liberalism $x Moral and ethical aspects. 650 0 $a Liberty of conscience. 650 7 $a Autonomy (Philosophy) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00824166 650 7 $a Citizenship $x Moral and ethical aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00861924 650 7 $a Individualism $x Moral and ethical aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00970330 650 7 $a Liberalism $x Moral and ethical aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00997187 650 7 $a Liberty of conscience. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00997284 776 08 $i Online version: $a Swaine, Lucas, $t Ethical autonomy $d New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. $z 9780190087654 $w (DLC) 2019036508 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317013513.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EEF6ECB8C7F211EAB1F2873797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search